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Den of Thieves - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 16, 2018 - 3:57:55 PM
A notorious crew of bank robbers are looking to pull off the ultimate
heist of cash about to be taken out of circulation that would set them
up for life. A rule breaking division of law enforcement is looking to
bring them to justice, but their questionable ways of getting them may
make them worse than the crooks.
Nicholas “Big Dick” O’Brien is
the a corrupt LA sheriff going through a divorce who is obsessed with
bringing down a certain crew of crooks he believes is led by Ray
Merrimen...
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The Karate Kid Part II - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 13, 2018 - 8:17:20 AM
One more lesson to share. The price of honor. The glory of friendship. And the way you must fight when only the winner survives.
A
martial arts student makes an emergency trip with his sensei to his
birth country to visit his dying father. While there, the sensei must
deal with the relationships he left behind including that of his old
flame and also his best friend turned powerful enemy. The student also
finds new love that is threatened by their connection with his sensei’s
village...
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Cobra Kai (Season 1) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 12, 2018 - 4:14:05 PM
The Karate Kid Saga Continues
34 after a crushing defeat, the
star pupil of a closed karate dojo seeks redemption by reopening it. In
so doing he reignites a rivalry with a now successful high school foe
who is having trouble maintaining balance in his life without the
guidance of his sensei.
Johnny Lawrence is the former star
student of the Cobra Kai karate dojo who is down on his luck and decides
to restart the Cobra Kai dojo with the hope of giving his life a sense
of purpose.
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The Next Karate Kid - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 12, 2018 - 1:50:02 PM
When a war veteran visits the widow of a soldier he fought alongside he
promises to help her with her brooding granddaughter. When a situation
at school goes beyond her control the granddaughter decides to take the
veteran up on his offer to train her in martial arts as a way of dealing
with the problems that begin to overwhelm her.
Keisuke Miyagi is
a Medal of Honor bearer of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team from World
War II who offers to be the care taker of the grand daughter of his
deceased commanding officer in Boston...
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The Karate Kid (2010) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 12, 2018 - 12:31:26 PM
A young boy is relocated to another country that speaks a different
language due to his mother's latest career move. He almost immediately
falls for his classmate who has mutual feelings, but cultural
differences make the success of their friendship highly unlikely. To
make matters worse the friendship incurs the wrath of the neighborhood
bully. The young boy's only hope is to get the maintenance man of the
apartment building he lives in to teach him the martial art of Kung Fu...
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Acrimony - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 10, 2018 - 5:40:37 PM
The slow disintegration of a relationship spanning the prime years of a
couple’s life is looked on bitterly by one of the participants. As
circumstances begin to change it is hard to see who is to blame as
outside forces conspire to influence both of the once linked individuals
in ways beneficial to their own needs and wants.
Melinda
Moore-Gayle is a woman who believes she has squandered the best years of
her life in a marriage that has brought her nothing in the way of
sustainable happiness as she has sacrificed her potential...
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A Quiet Place - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 30, 2018 - 8:50:39 PM
The surviving family of four must live their lives in silence as
mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten to kill the rest of
them. As their family prepares to welcome a new member they must move
beyond past mistakes in order to protect each other from the predatory
menace.
Evelyn Abbott is the matriarch of the Abbott household
and is preparing to bring a fourth child into a deadly world where a
loud noise could summon a horrifying creature to attack whatever made
it...
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Avengers : Infinity War - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 28, 2018 - 9:53:21 PM
Where Will You Be, When It All Ends?
A group of heroes must put
aside their differences to fight against a cosmic danger with a plan to
destroy half of the universe’s sentient life. To achieve his goal he
must collect six artifacts around the cosmos of unimaginable power and
it is up to the heroes to keep them from him. If they fail in their duty
then existence itself well pay the ultimate price of their monumental
loss...
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Ant-Man - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 24, 2018 - 11:29:13 AM
One of the taglines for this movie: No Shield. No Armor. No Problem. A
burglar must find the hero inside himself to help a bitter scientist
protect the secret behind his invention which allows a person to shrink
in size while increasing in strength. Against towering odds they must
work together with their trusted associates to pull off a heist that
will save the world from the threat of a global terrorist infestation...
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Iron Man - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 23, 2018 - 11:50:25 AM
This is the first movie by the film division of Marvel Studios and shows
that there is hope for the House Of Ideas' comic book creations on the
silver screen when handled by the company that created them. The movie
has a great Summer blockbuster feel and the right mix of action,
adventure, comedy and drama to make it fun for anyone even if they are
not familiar with the character.
Tony Stark is a playboy
billionaire industrialist who has a figurative and literal change of
heart after he is captured by insurgents and given the task of making a
missile...
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Rampage - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 22, 2018 - 7:27:56 PM
When a silverback albino gorilla becomes one of the three animals
mutated to an enormous size, the primatologist who has taken care of him
since birth will do anything to find a cure. He must team up with a
disgraced genetic engineer to secure an antidote in time to save his
altered friend and stop the other raging animals from destroying the
city they have converged on.
Davis Okoye is a primatologist at
the San Diego Wildlife Preserve who was a former U S Army Special Forces
soldier in the anti-poaching unit and friend to a mutating albino
gorilla named George...
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Lost In Space (Season 1) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 21, 2018 - 2:33:59 PM
When a celestial object makes their planet gradually uninhabitable,
selected families are launched on an interstellar spacecraft to colonize
a new region of the galaxy. On the 24th mission of the spacecraft, an
alien entity breaches the hull and forces some of the families to
evacuate to a non-native habitable but uncharted planet nearby.
Maureen
Robinson is a brilliant aerospace engineer taking her family to the
colonized Alpha Centauri. John Robinson is a pilot and former Marine
married to Maureen...
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Skyline - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 18, 2018 - 8:16:45 PM
If You Think You Can Hide...If You Think You Can Resist...If You Think You Can Survive...You Haven't Seen The Light.
Following
a late night birthday party, a group of friends are awoken in the wee
hours before dawn by strange blue lights beaming through their penthouse
window. These eerie lights have descended all over the city of Los
Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame and then scooping
them in to the air...
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Ready Player One - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Apr 3, 2018 - 9:07:30 PM
In the future, the creator of an immersive virtual world
leaves his immense fortune and control of that world to anyone who can
win a contest he designed. An unlikely hero is able to figure out the
first challenge and with the help of his friends in the virtual world he
attempts to win the contest to keep it away from the evil corporation
that wants to corrupt it.
Wade Watts is the young man known as
Parzival in the virtual world of the OASIS who wishes to win the Quest
so he can leave where he lives in the stacks in Ohio with a neglectful
relative...
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A Wrinkle In Time - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Mar 21, 2018 - 11:25:00 AM
A young girl, her younger brother and a school mate must go on a journey
across the universe with the help of three celestial beings to find her
missing father. As they travel to worlds beyond their comprehension,
the young girl must learn to embrace her flaws & harness the
strength inside herself to defeat the evil that awaits.
Meg Murry
is a young girl dealing with the disappearance of her father and self
esteem issues, who is given the opportunity to save her father by
tessering to the planets he accidentally transported himself to...
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Fear What's Inside - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Mar 20, 2018 - 3:37:20 PM
A group of military scientists is joined by an ex-military biologist on
an expedition into a mysterious quarantined zone. Once there, they must
find out the reason why only one person from previous expeditions has
ever returned and how to stop the slow expansion of the quarantined
zone.
Lena is a biologist & working university professor who
was a former soldier and is drafted on a top secret military expedition
into the area of the Shimmer after her husband is the only person ever
to return from the area...
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Black Panther - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Feb 22, 2018 - 2:57:13 PM
After the death of his father a prince must take on the mantle of king
of his isolationist and technologically advanced nation. When an enemy
from his nation’s past reappears, the new king must prove himself to his
people as he is drawn into a conflict with the potential to put the
nations of the world at risk.
T’Challa is the new King of Wakanda
and also the new Black Panther with a sworn oath to protect the
interests of his isolated nation from those who would use its advanced
technology for evil. Shuri is the princess of Wakanda and the current
head designer of its technological tradition of incorporating the alien
metal Vibranium into every aspect of their cutting-edge way of life...
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The Cloverfield Paradox - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Feb 8, 2018 - 9:59:50 AM
A group of scientists on a space station orbiting a planet on the brink
of war must test a device that could solve their world’s energy crisis.
On testing the device they transport themselves to an alternate
dimension and must find the means on the reality warped station to
return to their original location.
Ava Hamilton is a member of
the crew on the Cloverfield Space Station who are tasked with testing
the Shephard particle accelerator that could end the world’s energy
crisis...
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jan 29, 2018 - 10:47:13 AM
A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy that gives closure to the
microcosm we have been following with an open end of the macro chaos
defined by the world at large.
Every Maze Has An End
One
of the taglines for this movie: Every Maze Has An End. A young man
leads a group of fellow fugitives from a clandestine corporation’s
experiment on a dangerous mission to save their captured friend...
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All the Money in the World - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jan 21, 2018 - 11:39:18 AM
When
a teenage boy is kidnapped and held for ransom, it is up to his devoted
mother to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay it. When the
billionaire refuses to pay, the mother must team with he adviser in a
race against time to get her son from his captors who are becoming
increasingly brutal in their demands for the money.
Abigail
Harris is the mother of a kidnapped son who must find a way to pay the
ransom demanded by the kidnappers by going to her son’s grandfather for
the money...
